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Chapter 2
As the wind blew harshly outside, the hosts were grateful to be indoors as they stood in the Boston Logan airport, patiently awaiting the arrival of their friends from back home.
"Aw! You're so cute!" Tamaki, Hikaru, Kaoru and Hunny cooed as they glomped Haruhi.
"I didn't do anything." Haruhi said, confused about what they were going on about this time.
"The way you were standing there looking so innocently was adorable!" Tamaki said, rubbing his cheek against hers. Haruhi rolled her eyes.
"Get off of me." Haruhi said, trying to push all four men off of her. Hunny giggled and returned to Mori's side. After a few more pushes, so did Hikaru and Kaoru. Tamaki, after some more persisting, finally let go, however, he instantly grabbed Haruhi's hand and interlocked their fingers.
Haruhi let out a breath and fixed her jacket that had been shifted during the bear-hug with her free-hand. Hunny giggled and turned to Haruhi and Tamaki.
"I just got an idea! We should go on a double-date!" Everyone furrowed their eyebrows and turned to each other in confusion.
"Um...a double date?" Tamaki said
"Yeah, Tama-chan, a double date. You know, when two couples go out together."
"I know what a double date is, it's just that, like you said, it's when two couples go out together. There's Haruhi and I and there's you but there isn't someone else. You don't have a girlfriend."
"Yes I do," Hunny said innocently. Everyone looked around at each other, more confused than before.
"What? Who?" Hikaru asked
"Kanazuki Reiko," Hunny said sweetly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I thought you all knew that." Everyone's, especially Mori's, eyes widened in shock. Each of them trying to piece together a reply to that comment. Their friend, one of their best friends, had a girlfriend that no one had ever known about. Mori, who looked ready to faint, stood, feet rooted to the floor, staring off into space.
How could he not have known?
They all stood, shell-shocked, trying to find a response that sounded at least partly intelligent or, at the very least, not completely stupid, such as: "Uh..."
They were saved from having to respond because only several moments later, they heard loud shrieks coming from behind them. They turned around and smiled.
"It's the Host Club!" Renge shrieked, pointing towards the seven best friends and running towards them in excitement, everyone else following behind her, just as excited.
The two groups reached each other and immediately starting hugging, laughing and catching up on six months worth of information. Passerby's looked towards the large group of teenagers in amusement, chuckling at the sight.
Hunny hugged Reiko, giving her a light kiss on the cheek then turning to his brother, arms spread out, about to give him a hug. Chika saw this and immediately turned away, not wanting to give him a hug. Through the corner of his eye, Satoshi saw this and separated from his older brother's hug and ran over to Chika and smacked him in the head.
"Respect your older brother!" Tears appeared in the corner of Chika's eyes and his lip started quivering.
"Why would you do that?
Mori chuckled then turned to Kasanoda, smiling and greeting him.
Renge smiled, hands interlocked in front of her.
"Hello Kyouya," Kyouya smiled slyly back at her.
"Renge," He nodded curtly.
"How have you been?" Renge asked
"Fine, how have you been?" Kyouya asked
"Fabulous,"
Tamaki stood still, petrified.
"Why, hello," Nekozawa said, approaching Tamaki, Belzenef in front of his eyes, blocking out the glare from the florescent lighting.
Tamaki was quaking as he gripped Haruhi's hand. Haruhi was turned away from Tamaki and Nekozawa, talking to Kasugasaki, Sakurazuka and Ayame and only turned towards them for a moment to inform her boyfriend of something.
"Tamaki-senpai, you're hurting my hand." Tamaki, now shaking uncontrollably, only gripped her hand even harder.
Haruhi winced but didn't say anything. She just took a deep breath and went back to her conversation with the girls.
"How could not tell us you were a girl?" Kasugasaki asked
"Well...I technically never said that I wasn't a girl."
"Don't make excuses." Ayame said, though she didn't sound at all angry.
"I'll explain once we reach the apartments. I'm sure everyone is wondering the same thing." The girls nodded in agreement and proceeded to ask personal questions about her relationship with Tamaki ("Did you feel jealous whenever he flirted with all of us?") and the other hosts ("Have you dated each of them as well?"). Haruhi answered their questions as calmly as she could.
Hikaru and Kaoru had their arms around the Class rep's shoulder.
"Hey buddy," Hikaru said
"How's it going? Missed us?" Kaoru asked
"N-Not r-really." Kazukiyo was shaking in terror causing Kurakano to giggle at the three of them.
"Aw, that hurts Class rep," Hikaru said, holding a hand to his heart.
"Yeah, we missed you." Kaoru said. Mei rolled her eyes at the twins and laughed, prompting the doppelgangers to turn and look at her pointedly.
"What are you laughing at?" Kaoru asked. Mei shook her head, letting a few more chuckles escape before looking back up at the twins, smiling.
"Nothing, it's just that...well...no," She shook her head, "...nothing." She smiled and took a step towards them.
"It's good to see you guys," The twins turned to each other then back at Mei.
"Same," They said in unison.
"So...explain." Renge said seriously. Once back at the apartment, the students of Ouran, excluding Kasanoda and Mei who already knew and Chika who didn't care, wasted no time in sitting down the members of the host club and asking them, point blank, why on earth would they hide Haruhi's gender and have her join the host club?
The seven best friends turned to each other then back to their friends.
"Do you want to tell the story?" Haruhi asked her boyfriend.
"I think we should tell the story all together." He replied, smiling and grabbing her hand while turning to the five other members of the club. They nodded in agreement. They would tell the story together.
"Okay, so...here it goes." Haruhi said, taking a deep breath and diving into the story head first.
As the hosts told the story, each taking turns explaining parts that they could do the best, their friends eyes brightened in understanding, Renge furiously taking notes for her next volume of Moe Moe diaries. Expressions changing every few seconds, one minute they were cooing at the cuteness of the events, frowning and sometimes even tearing up at the sadder moments, laughing at the moments of hilarity due to the host club's strange plans, grinning at the moments of wonderful friendship and tightening their fists at the times worth some anger.
The story ended and the room was silent for several moments before, all at once, the girls started squealing and glomping the hosts.
The men had been ready, Haruhi, however, hadn't and was suffocating from all the rib-cracking hugs she was receiving at once.
"You guys! Ow!" Haruhi disappeared in the crowd of girls, only to finally resurface ten minutes later.
"So how have you been?" Hunny asked, seated on Reiko's temporary bed, his legs dangling over the side.
Reiko responded with a simple 'good' as she continued to unpack her items from her four suitcases. Unsurprisingly, everyone, including the boys, had brought three to four suitcases with them. When asked by Haruhi why, they simply responded by saying 'Of course we did. We need all of our stuff, just because we are to be in the presence of commoners for two weeks doesn't mean we have to dress any differently than if we were back home.' Mei needed the extra space because she couldn't bear to leave any of her clothes at home in case she met a hot American guy during her visit.
Hunny giggled, "Come on, isn't there anything new that's happened?" Reiko turned to her boyfriend and shook her head.
"No," She replied, unfolding one of her many black cloaks and placing it in her in the drawer. Hunny looked down at his lap and chuckled, looking back up with a soft expression on his face.
"I missed you," Reiko gasped silently and turned to look at Hunny, a slight blush tainting her cheeks.
"I missed you too," She mumbled, looking down and turning away. Hunny grinned and jumped down from the bed, walking over to Reiko and helping her unpack. Over the course of the six months they had been Boston, Hunny had grown, albeit not as much as Haruhi's strange dream, but just enough so that he was only a few centimetres shorter then Reiko. He gave her a kiss on the cheek before picking up a pair of her onyx coloured boots and placing them in the cupboard.
"Oh my god! This is going to be the craziest Christmas ever!" Mei said, lounging on the couch waiting for Haruhi to prepare the tea. Having been the quickest to unpack her suitcase, she had extra time before all the students of Ouran started invading Haruhi's apartment.
"Yeah," Haruhi replied offhandedly, paying more attention to the preparation of the tea then to Mei's comment.
"Are you even listening?" Mei asked
"Uh huh, good for you."
"I think I'm in love with Tamaki-kun." Mei said
"That's great Mei." Mei rolled her eyes and stood up, making her way over to Haruhi.
"Pay attention!" She said, lightly hitting Haruhi upside the head.
Haruhi laughed, "Sorry," She said, "What were you saying?" Haruhi asked, picking up the tray of tea and bringing it over to the table near the couch.
"I was saying that I think I'm in love with Tamaki-kun," Haruhi stopped dead in her tracks and one of the glasses fell off the tray and shattered against the ground.
"W-What?" Haruhi stuttered, smashing the tray down on the table harder then she had meant to and turning around in shock.
"You think you're in love with...really?" Haruhi asked, confusedly and nervously.
Mei laughed and shook her head. "No, of course not. I was just checking to see if you were listening. What I was really saying was that this is going to be the craziest Christmas ever!" Mei said, this time, waving her arms around for more emphasis.
Haruhi nodded, partly in agreement and partly in relief. "Oh yeah, we're not gonna be able to get any rest at all these next two weeks." She said, kneeling down and picking up the shards of glass from the ground.
"Have you met any hot American guys yet?" Mei asked, kneeling down beside Haruhi and helping her clean up the glass.
Haruhi shook her head furiously, stammering and trying to piece together a reply.
Mei laughed and shook her head, "I was just kidding! I know you're dating Tamaki-kun!" The two friends stood up. "It's just so much fun to tease you."
"You know, Kyouya, we're going to have to tell someone at some point." Renge said. She was lying down on Kyouya's bed, feet flat on the bed and knees bent, her head turned to the right. Kyouya was sitting on the loveseat, typing away at his laptop.
"I don't see why we should. Everything is going fine at the moment. Why should we wreck it?" He asked, not removing his eyes from the illuminated screen of his laptop.
Renge rolled her eyes and sighed. "I'm not saying we have to shout it from the P.A. system of Ouran! Just a few people! Like the host club? Or just one person! What about Tamaki-kun? He's your best friend!"
Kyouya scoffed, "If I told him then the entire world know. He can't keep a secret." He looked up and turned to Renge, smirking.
"Incidentally, I didn't think you could keep a secret either."
"This secret involves me. I wouldn't tell anyone. I'm not ready for the whole world to know either. I just want to tell our closest friends. How about just a few of the girls?" Renge asked, hopefully.
Kyouya sighed. He shut his laptop and walked over to his bed. Kneeling down so that he and Renge were looking eye to eye, he said:
"Look, I don't want anyone to know just yet. You know as well as I do that all of my friends as well as yours can't keep their mouths shut. If we tell any one of them then the whole planet will know and neither of us is ready for that. Can you imagine what would happen with my father? I'm already supposed to be getting married in three years. I'm sure my father is already looking for a suitable bride. If he finds out then he'll just look quicker and this will have to end." Kyouya exhaled and looked down. "And I don't want that." Renge's expression softened and she brought her hand up to Kyouya's face, moving some stray hair from his forehead.
"I don't either." She said as she leaned in, their lips connecting.
"Are you excited?" Nekozawa asked a still trembling Tamaki.
"A-About...?" He asked
"Us being here of course." Nekozawa said
"Oh," Tamaki said, standing up from the couch he had been sitting on and walking towards the door.
"Very excited." He said, "But if you'll excuse me, I must go see how my dear Haruhi is doing." He left, leaving Nekozawa to unpack in silence.
As he exited his apartment and walked over to the next door, he turned the knob only to discover that it was locked so he dug his hand in his pants pocket and took out a key. Placing it into the slot and turning it, he opened the door and walked in casually. As if he had not just barged in uninvited and unannounced.
The two girls looked up and Haruhi stared in confusion.
"How did you get in?"She asked, a little angrily. She had a feeling she knew where this conversation was heading to.
"Using a key." He said, not yet realizing what he'd done.
"Why do you have a key to my apartment?" Haruhi asked
"We all have a key." Tamaki said, referring to himself as well as the rest of the host club.
Haruhi's eyes widened in shock. "What? Where did you all get a key?"
"We borrowed your key and made six copies. Look," He said, taking the key out again. "My key has a picture with the seven of us on it."
"How did you get that?" Mei asked
"Hikaru and Kaoru had some connections." He said
Meanwhile, Haruhi was fuming.
"I never let you borrow my key." She said, trying to stay as calm as possible by gritting her teeth.
"I took it off of your dresser." Haruhi's eyes widened.
"But we need a key! What if an emergency were to happen? What if there's a thunderstorm? We want to be there for you! But we can't if your doors' locked and we can't get in."
"That doesn't give you an excuse to make six copies of my key without asking!"
"Class rep, what are you doing?" Hikaru and Kaoru looked confusedly over to Kazukiyo. He was crouched in the smallest and farthest corner of the room, quacking in worry and with a shaking hand, writing out something in a notebook.
"Writing out my will." He said. They raised their eyebrows.
"Why?" They asked
"I have to share a room with the two of you for two whole weeks. I'm not going to survive so I'm writing out my will." Kazukiyo looked up and stared at Kurakano. "You get all of my books." Kurakano smiled and giggled.
"Don't be such a 'fraidy cat Class rep. Kurakano gets her own room because she's a girl and there isn't any more room unless you want to sleep on the couch."
"I'll sleep on the couch!"
"Sorry the couch is off limits." Kaoru said
"Whyyyy?" Kazukiyo whined
"Because..." Hikaru said
"...it's fun to bug you." Kaoru said
Kazukiyo groaned and smacked his head on his notebook.
"Ugh..."
Lol, poor Class rep! And yeah, so Renge and Kyouya are dating in secret. I've always loved the idea of people dating in secret (kinda like Misaki and Usui in Kaichou wa Maid-Sama) and I thought that Kyouya and Renge were the best couple to do it with. So thanks for reading and please review!
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